This is the normal length of a research paper: always

longer than you would expect

Kai Norman Clasen Institute name
Outline
1. Aspect ratio

2. vfilleditems

3. Fonts

4. Color

5. Graphics

6. Footer options

7. Citations
Aspect ratio

This pdf uses a 16:9 aspect ratio. To utilize this version, simply use:
\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}

The default is a 4:3 aspect ratio.

\documentclass{beamer}

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Using itemize

• I like it to have my bullet points

• evenly spaced from one another
• then few bullet points, are not crammed on the upper part of the
slide like it is right now with itemize

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Using vfilleditems
Use the provided \vfilleditems environment
to create nicely spaced bullet points.

\begin{vfilleditems}
\item I like it to have my bullet points
\item evenly spaced from one another
\item then few bullet points, are not crammed on
the upper part of the slide
\end{vfilleditems}

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Using vfilleditems

• I like it to have my bullet points

• evenly spaced from one another

• then few bullet points, are not crammed on the upper part of the
slide

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Using vfilleditems

• Note that the overlay specification is a bit different to itemize

• For grouped overlay specifications, simply add it directly after the

environment:
• \begin{vfilleditems}<+->

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Fonts

Fonts:
This is small
This is normal size
This is large

Per default the Fira Font Package is used. The Noto Font is also bundled
into this package.

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Fonts
To use Noto instead of Fira Fonts
\usetheme[noto]{pureminimalistic}

To disable the Fira Fonts and use the default font

\usetheme[customfont]{pureminimalistic}

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Color

To overwrite the theme color

1. Define a new color
2. redefine the themes color (before document begins)

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Change color example

\usetheme{pureminimalistic}
\definecolor{textcolor}{RGB}{0, 0, 120}
\definecolor{title}{RGB}{0, 0, 0}
\definecolor{footercolor}{RGB}{133, 133, 133}
\definecolor{bg}{RGB}{25, 116, 210}

\renewcommand{\beamertextcolor}{textcolor}
\renewcommand{\beamerbgcolor}{bg}
\renewcommand{\beamerfootertextcolor}{footercolor}
\renewcommand{\beamertitlecolor}{title}

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Dark mode

I’ve included a simple way to use a dark mode color theme. To use the
dark color mode, provide the darkmode option.
\usetheme[darkmode]{pureminimalistic}

Sometimes, the logos have to be changed to look nice on a dark

background. For now, I am simply loading different files if darkmode is
used.

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Logos
Commands setting the logos:
• \logotitle – Command used for the title page. Here \linewidth
corresponds to the entire paper width.
• \logoheader – Command used for the header. Here \linewidth
corresponds to a smaller box, as the horizontal space is shared with
the title.
• \logofooter – Command used for the footer. Here \linewidth
corresponds to a smaller box, as the horizontal space is shared with
the footer text.

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Logos – Load own logo
To use your own logos, simply redefine the commands and adjust the
sizes.
\renewcommand{\logotitle}{\includegraphics%
[width=.2\linewidth]{alternative_logo/gameboy.png}}
\renewcommand{\logoheader}{\includegraphics%
[width=.5\linewidth]{alternative_logo/gameboy.png}}
\renewcommand{\logofooter}{\includegraphics%
[width=.15\linewidth]{alternative_logo/console.png}}

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Logos – Disable logo
To disable the logo, overwrite the default logo command with an empty
command.
\renewcommand{\logoheader}{}

You may want to add some vertical space if you wish to delete the
logoheader.
\renewcommand{\logoheader}{\vspace{1.5em}}

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Figures
I also changed the default caption settings to not include Figure: and
reduced the font size.

A B
Example A Example B

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Figures – Set background watermark
There is no extra option to define a background watermark, but here is a
command that could be used to create one manually:

\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\tikz[overlay,remember picture]%
\node[opacity=0.8]at (current page.center)%
{\includegraphics[width=.2\linewidth]%
{example-image-a}};%
}

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Figures – Set background watermark

A
Usually you would add this command to specific frames by enclosing this
command and all desired frames with curly brackets.

See the source code of this *.tex file for an example.

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Disable footer

If you do not want to use a footer, disable it with:

\usetheme[nofooter]{pureminimalistic}

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Show max slide numbers

For these slides, I used the option to show the maximum number of
slides. To activate it one has to activate it with:
\usetheme[showmaxslides]{pureminimalistic}

Usually, I prefer to not show the maximum number of slides, as the

people tend to lose focus if they know the last few slides are shown.

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Remove footer logo

If you wish to remove the footer logo and move the page number to the
right parts use:
\usetheme[nofooterlogo]{pureminimalistic}

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Change Page word

If you wish to remove or change the word Page in the footer, change the
value with
\renewcommand{\pageword}{Seite}

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Citations

I’ve also changed the bibliography options to be minimalistic:

Just showing a simple \cite [1]

[1] Alex Krizhevsky et al. “ImageNet Classification with Deep

Convolutional Neural Networks”. In: Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems 25. Curran Associates, Inc., 2012, pp. 1097–1105.

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Backup Slides
What happened to the page numbering?

• I’ve used the appendixnumberbeamer package, which resets the

frame counting after calling \appendix
• Depending on the used pdf viewer, the total count of frames shouldn’t
include the backup slides and won’t demotivate the audience.
• Usually, I would use a plain frame for the backup slides.

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